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Tuesday, December 4, 2012Kasich confirms he met with casino magnate, but not for re-election plansKasich says he talked to Sheldon Adelson because he's a republican activistby WKSU's STATEHOUSE BUREAU CHIEF KAREN KASLER

ReporterKaren Kasler

Three Republican governors who are often talked about as having national ambitions have met privately with Sheldon Adelson, the owner of the huge Venetian casino in Las Vegas. One of those governors is Ohio’s John Kasich, who says it was no big deal.

But Kasich says he did talk to Adelson about the Holocaust Memorial that’s being built on the Statehouse grounds, a project that Kasich has personally pushed and that he says is the first of its kind in the U.S. But he says he did not talk to the casino magnate about his plans to run for re-election in 2014 or about anything he might be planning for 2016.